Deposing before the special CBI court in 2G case, former department of telecommunications (DoT) official A.K. Srivastava on Tuesday said that the former telecom minister A Raja, the prime accused in the case took the decisions on policy matters.

The testimony of Srivastava is significance as he earlier in his statement to the CBI had said that Raja had noted in a DoT file that the cut-off date for receiving applications for grant of the 2G spectrum licences would be Oct 1, 2007.

"The cabinet minister is the final authority in DoT for approval of policy matters of access service cell. The proposals are normally initiated by the section, that is, at the section officer level, the ADG level and the director level," Srivastava said.

He said that all the files were submitted to Raja, key accused in the case, through proper channel for final decisions on various proposals.

“The file is then seen by DDG and thereafter, is submitted for decision through proper channel, that is, through Member (Technology) and Secretary (DoT), to Minister of Communication and Information Technology (MOC&IT),” Srivastava told Special CBI Judge O P Saini.

He identified Raja, his writing and signatures on some of the documents shown to him by the CBI prosecutor in the court. Recording of Srivastava's statement would continue Wednesday.

He also said that when he re-joined the department as DDG (AS) on May 31, 2007 after coming back from deputation, the main policy change which he noticed was the migration of basic and cellular operators.